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MARTIN TUBRIDY’S TAX TROUBLES

Date: May 2, 2019 - Briefcases

THE REVENUE moved this week to wind up a company owned by one Martin Tubridy in Co Clare. The publican-cum-engineer has had a tough few years and now his GMD Developments is in liquidation. Given how much he was owed by the company, this represents a severe setback. The Clare publican has had previous run-ins… Read more »

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FAREWELL FIMAK

Date: May 2, 2019 - Briefcases

A COMPANY that found itself the subject of some media coverage last year over the operation of the student Leap Card system has wound itself up, although people might not recognise the name. Fimak Group featured in the Irish Times last summer when it emerged that an alleged flaw in the Leap Card travel system… Read more »

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DAVID SMYTH’S BLACKHALL BLUES

Date: May 2, 2019 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see that the Law Society has just registered a judgment against Waterford tech outfit Agenda Computers Ltd, where the principal is one David Smyth. The judgment relates to costs secured by the society in a High Court action against Smyth’s company, through which he ran a ‘claims harvesting’ website, personalinjurysolicitorsdublin.info. Soliciting or encouraging… Read more »

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NEW MEDIA CURRENCY

Date: May 2, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE TWO Sunday Business Post journalists — ex-editor Ian Kehoe and executive editor Tom Lyons — who wanted to buy out their newspaper from their then publisher, Key Capital’s Conor Killeen, went to Grant Thornton looking for, em, capital to do so last year. It appears that Killeen did not take seriously their aspiration or… Read more »

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Paul Reid

HSE PAUL REID’S RADICAL PAST

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT AN interesting journey the new €300,000-salaried HSE director general, Paul Reid, has travelled since the days of his firebrand activism in politics and the trade union movement. Comrades in the trade union movement remember Reid as the chief shop steward in the Communications Workers’ Union in Telecom Éireann, where his energy and attention to… Read more »

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Barry Andrews

MARTIN SUPPORTS EU ARMY

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A STRAINED silence emanated from Fianna Fáil following the revelation that Fine Gael successfully blocked its EU grouping, the European Peoples Party (EPP), from inclusion of support for an EU army in its EU-wide election manifesto (see The Phoenix, 5/4/19). Is this because FF’s EU partners, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE),… Read more »

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Barry Connell

PROFILE: BARRY CONNELL

Date: April 18, 2019 - Pillars of Society

TEN YEARS ago, Dublin-based hedge fund manager and former stockbroker Barry Connell looked odds-on to become one of the leading players in the ranks of Ireland’s national hunt owners. He had indulged his passion for race riding by riding his own horses in bumpers for a number of years but, when a shoulder injury put… Read more »

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Maria Walshe

YOUNG BLOOD: MARIA WALSH

Date: April 18, 2019 - The Young Bloods

IF FINE GAEL’S cosmopolitan leadership could manufacture a candidate under laboratory conditions, the result would probably look a lot like former Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh (31). The US-born Mayo native will make her political debut in May as one of two Blueshirt candidates for… Read more »

Denis O'Brien

O’BRIEN COULD GET €100M IN INM TAKE-OUT

Date: April 18, 2019 - Moneybags

IT IS hard to believe the news emerging of a pending takeover bid for Independent News & Media (INM). With Denis O’Brien sitting on a 30% shareholding and his pal, Dermot Desmond (invited in at a hefty discounted 7c a share five years ago), sitting on a further 15%, these two will have a very… Read more »

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Richard Boyd-Barrett

TARGETING BOYD BARRETT

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A CAMPAIGN of sorts has been kicked off by film industry insiders, who appear to have had their fill of Richard Boyd Barrett of the People Before Profit (PBP) party. He happens to be a regular critic of a sector that swallows over €90m a year in public lolly, mostly courtesy of the Section 481… Read more »

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Anthony McGrath

ANTHONY MCGRATH’S ANTIQUES

Date: April 18, 2019 - High Society

LAST WEEK’S popular Channel 4 series, 24 hours in Police Custody, featured one Anthony McGrath, an Irish-born orthopaedic surgeon with a “very privileged background”. Given the subject matter of the programme, it is not surprising that the medic, whose childhood home is the splendid Somerville House in Co Meath, didn’t come out smelling of roses…. Read more »

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Catherine Fulvio

CATHERINE’S RICH RECIPES

Date: April 18, 2019 - High Society

NEXT MONTH ‘celebrity chef’ Catherine Fulvio dons her glad rags (Irish designers were frothing at the bit) and flies off to southern California for the 46th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. It represents the most high-profile coup for the media-savvy businesswoman. Fulvio garnered her nomination courtesy of a 12-episode series, A… Read more »

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AIDAN EAMES’S CLIENTS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE MOST influential man in the room at the recent Oireachtas Committee on Sport hearing was not Football Association of Ireland (FAI) demoted executive John Delaney, committee chair Fergus O’Dowd TD nor even FAI president Donal Conway. Legal Svengali, solicitor Aidan Eames sat silently throughout the hearing, but his experience and advice on the Oireachtas… Read more »

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Philip Comyn

PHILIP COMYN ‘ADMONISHED’

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see the name of Cork City coroner Philip Comyn featuring among the assorted legal eagles who had come a cropper at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDF). Comyn is from a well-known Mallow legal family and followed his solicitor father, Andrew, into the profession, where he has proved most successful. (Philip and… Read more »

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Paul Williams

CRIME DOES PAY

Date: April 18, 2019 - Fit to Print?

The International Fraud Prevention Conference, organised by ex-INM group editor Stephen Rae and his best buddy and colleague, Paul Williams, formerly of Newstalk, has a dramatic ring to it. Rae and Williams – principal moderators at the conference sessions – have formed IFPC Ltd with Stubbs Gazette’s James Treacy. The organisers have roped in retired… Read more »

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Date: April 18, 2019 -

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Mark Durkan

SDLP/FIANNA FÁIL: THE FIRST ITEM

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW IS the ‘historic’ Fianna Fáil/SDLP alliance playing out in the European elections, especially in Dublin where FF candidate Barry Andrews would surely value SDLP support given the Blueshirts’ recruitment of ex-SDLP leader Mark ‘Muirsheen’ Durkan in the same election? Already, Labour candidate Alex White has suborned SDLP ‘dissident’ grande Dame Bríd Rogers to his… Read more »

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PHELIM O’NEILL’S MANY HATS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the side-effects of that high profile eviction in Strokestown, Co Roscommon last December was the gardaí’s decision to seize the mobile phone owned by editor of the Democrat, Emmett Corcoran, earlier this month. A subsequent injunction was sought by the hack and the company behind the newspaper, Oncor Ventures Ltd, where the other… Read more »

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Jim Bailey

KERRY (IN)SANITY PLEA

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ANOTHER HSE controversy is trundling down the tracks, courtesy of Kerry’s Eye, following the HSE’s grudging agreement to correct a false record stating that Castlemaine man Jim Bailey had been admitted to St Finan’s Mental Hospital. This came after Bailey spent decades trying to prove that he was never regarded as suffering from psychiatric illness… Read more »

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Nick Lockwood

HEEEE’S OUTTA HERE!

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

RELATIONS between Ireland and the US may have been slightly dented by an incident last week at Dublin Airport, which saw a baseball coach given his marching orders as his visit turned into a surprise home run. Nick Lockwood is a former professional baseball player who plied his trade for the Minnesota Twins for four… Read more »

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Drew Harris

DREW HARRIS CROSS-BORDER SECURITY

Date: April 18, 2019 - Hush Hush

Elite and heavily armed units of the PSNI cruising around Dublin is a steep step change in policing here in the south. But this is the reality under Garda commissioner Drew Harris’s command and it has not gone down well with gardaí at senior level as well as the rank and file. Following ‘Jeepgate’ –… Read more »

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IRISH IN THE WWE RING

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT IS it with the Irish and the rather lucrative ‘sport’ of wrestling – one of the biggest earners on TV? Even those unfamiliar with the carry-on in the high-octane world of WWE may have been introduced to the phenomenon last month courtesy of ‘Becky Lynch’ (real name Rebecca Quinn), the 30-something Dubliner who is… Read more »

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Louise O'Neill

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: April 18, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

As a human being, the disconnect between how I see myself and how I’m seen by those around me can feel almost dehumanising, like my sense of self is splitting. Louise O’Neill, Irish Examiner, submitted by reader Thought it was a waste of good money that could have been used to portray real historic events…. Read more »

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John Finucane

DUP AND SF TO DEVOUR RIVALS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

Observers will be watching the north’s local elections for answers to a series of political questions. Will Sinn Féin suffer for their abstentionist policy at Westminster? Will the DUP suffer for their support of Brexit in the face of opposition from business and agricultural interests? How far will the SDLP slump after a bad two… Read more »

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Anne Rabbitte

RABBITTE FEELS UNLOVED

Date: April 18, 2019 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL’S two-candidate strategy in the Midlands-North-West (MNW) EU constituency – the, er, ‘dream ticket’ of Brendan Smith and Anne Rabbitte – is already strained, with the Galway East TD, Rabbitte, emoting all over twitter about being disregarded by her party colleagues. Rabbitte has rejected… Read more »

Michael McDowell

McDOWELL’S FREE MEDIA PLATFORMS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Last Refuge

DUBLIN BAY South TDs Jim O’Callaghan and Kate O’Connell must have been chewing their carpets at the flattering exposure granted to former minister and attorney general, Senator Michael McDowell, by the state broadcaster in recent weeks. In the space of just a fortnight, an interview on TG4 was followed by a guest appearance on The… Read more »

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GEMMA’S THEORIES

Date: April 18, 2019 - Last Refuge

ADDING PUNGENCY to the EU elections is the candidacy of ‘investigative journalist’ Gemma O’Doherty in Dublin. If there is one live debate that Goldhawk listens to it will be that involving the woman whose conspiratorial claims make David Icke sound as sensible and boring as Paschal Donohoe. One looks forward to rival candidates or even… Read more »

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Mary Murphy

HIGGINS’S LABOUR DEFECTORS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Last Refuge

PRESIDENT HIGGINS’S new appointments to the Council of State do not include any party political members – not even from Labour, the political booster that Michael Twee relied on for decades before casting it off and ascending to the Áras. But there is one former Labour member, Dr Mary Murphy, among the seven new council… Read more »

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Peter Murtagh

PRESS SANCTION FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’

Date: April 18, 2019 - Fit to Print?

VETERAN Irish Times journalist and former Sunday Tribune editor Peter Murtagh retired last week. The IT fired a shot at Denis O’Brien in its tribute to the hack, noting that Murtagh had won an investigative journalism award for articles on the billionaire. However, just 12 days beforehand, press ombudsman Peter Feeney delivered a verdict on… Read more »

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KEYSTONE COPS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Fit to Print?

A SCENE of Keystone Cops proportion was conjured up last week by Irish Times, Irish Independent and RTÉ coverage of Garda commissioner Drew Harris’s accident at Phoenix Park HQ. All three media ran stories claiming that confusion reigned as a garda deliberately triggered the bollard, fearing that the northern-registered PSNI vehicle was a security threat…. Read more »

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Joe Healy

IFA VS DR WHO

Date: April 18, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

When you find yourself picking a fight with schoolkids, chances are you’re going to end up on the losing side, as the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has been finding out. It recently launched an ill-tempered and fact-free attack on a Green Schools environmental education programme for, allegedly, demanding that everyone become vegan. IFA president Joe… Read more »

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PAT SMYTH’S SOLAR PANELS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

“The collapse of civilization is… on the horizon as a result of climate change.” So goes the blurb promoting Solar Power Ltd. It explains how “installing Solar PV to generate electricity in your home, business or farm will help tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions”. The eco-warrior behind this brave new green venture is… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

Fishy business A TYRONE man accused of assault became angered with the prosecutor’s line of questioning in East Tyrone Magistrates Court, demanding to know, “Are you making a cod of me?” John Thomas Cassidy from Killyfaddy Road, Moy, and his son, Ryan Cassidy, Drumarg Park, Armagh, were both accused of assaulting a man delivering water… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

SINGAPORE MONEYBAGS

Date: April 18, 2019 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see that the man understood to have bought the Dublin City Hotel and Trinity Bar on Dame Street, D2, is one Stanley Quek. This is not the only trophy he recently picked up in the environs of Dame Street. Quek, a Singapore moneybags, has been expanding his interests here. He was reported to… Read more »

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Stephen Dorff

DON’T GO – DIRECTED BY DAVID GLEESON

Date: April 18, 2019 - MoviesReviews

WATCHING David Gleeson’s Don’t Go in a near empty cinema, as Goldhawk did, a viewer’s thoughts may drift to parodies in The Simpsons of Poe’s The Raven and Kubrick’s The Shining. But what is on screen is neither Simpsons parodies nor gothic yarns like Don’t Look Now. It is actually something more akin to Sliding… Read more »

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THE GHOST FACTORY – JENNY McCARTNEY (4th ESTATE)

Date: April 18, 2019 - BooksReviews

WITH NO apparent end in sight to fictional accounts of the Troubles, it’s not surprising that this debut novel revisits familiar ground. The author now works as a journalist in London, but grew up in Northern Ireland (her father, Robert McCartney, was a former leader of the UK Unionist Party). Set in Belfast during the… Read more »

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